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Freestyle Digital Media has acquired global VOD rights to missing-person comedy The Disappearance of Toby Blackwood.

The digital film distribution division of Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group is set to release director Joe Ahern’s movie on global digital HD internet and satellite platforms Dec. 20. The madcap comedy features a script from Ahern and Doug Mellard, and producers are Mellard, Dan Riddle, Flynn Fletcher and Katie Middleton.

The Disappearance of Toby Blackwood focuses on the titular YouTube personality (played by Mellard), known for his wild conspiracy theories, who goes missing during the pandemic. It’s up to his childhood pal Wes Crowley (Ahern), himself enduring a painful divorce, and friend Luke Dalton (Grant Harvey) to track down clues at a time when even basic human interaction is a challenge. Dana DeLorenzo, Natasha Hall and Todd Giebenhain co-star, and The Octopus Project handled the score.

Hey, NCIS fans. Recently, the wonderful folks over at CBS put out a new episode press release for their upcoming second episode for the current season 15 of their hit action/drama series "NCIS." It features a teaser description for the episode. It sounds like we'll see some pretty interesting things take place in it as McGee and Gibbs have to undergo a psych test after their awful experience in Paraguay. Elsewhere, the NCIS team investigates the dead body of a missing Navy Lieutenant and more. The press release also revealed that this is episode is entitled, "Twofer." They started off their press release by putting the dead Navy Lieutenant storyline in all caps. It reads like this: "NCIS Investigates The Murder Of A Navy Lieutenant Whose Body Was Hidden At A Local Cemetery Over A Year Ago, On “NCIS,” Tuesday, Oct. 3" In their main description, they revealed that the NCIS...

Fox announced on Monday that the network had decided to cancel comedy sitcom Raising Hope, which is currently in its fourth season.

'Raising Hope' Canceled

“On behalf of myself, Greg Garcia and Raising Hope‘s amazing cast and crew, I would like to thank our audience for tuning in and supporting us over the last four seasons,” said executive producer Mike Mariano in a statement. “We planned our Season 4 finale with this possibility in mind, and hope our loyal fans enjoy the way we’ve chosen to say goodbye to the Chances and to Natesville. Thanks again, and we’ll see you in syndication.”

“Getting to know and love the Chance family on Raising Hope has been a sweet, hilarious ride,” Fox chief Kevin Reilly added. “Thanks to the incredibly talented cast – along with Greg, Mike and the entire crew – for making us laugh for four fantastic seasons.

K for Kardashian and for Kubrick (!), in addition to one more Snow White and one more Meyer cinematic entry There'll be something for everyone this coming weekend on North American screens, whether your palate (or brain) goes the Kardashian or the Kubrick way. Kim Kardashian, best known for the TV trash hit Keeping Up with the Kardashians and for her quick-as-lightning marriage to basketball player Kris Humphries, is featured in Tyler Perry's Temptation. Distributed by Lionsgate this drama about infidelity also stars Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Lance Gross, Vanessa Williams, Robbie Jones. (photo: a colorfully garbed Vanessa Williams and a very tightly garbed Kk) However, the probable box-office winner this weekend will be Channing Tatum. The Magic Mike and The Vow star is featured alongside Dwayne Johnson and Bruce Willis in Jon M. Chu's G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra sequel: G.I. Joe: Retaliation. The eagerly awaited (by 11-year-olds) action flick...